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March 5 & 9, 12:00-6:30. Please note that while Westwood holds student led conferences for all grade levels, each grade has a slightly different process. Please contact your child’s teacher if you have not received communication about student led conferences.

With the beginning of the 2014-15 school year, the Sunset CHAS clinic will serve students and families on site at Westwood every Thursday from 11am to 4pm providing the following: common health problems, sports physicals, oral health screenings, medicine checks and referrals. Call 509.444.8200 to access these services for your student.

Announcements

Two 8th grade students placed in the top five of their events at the Northeastern Washington FBLA Conference on Feb. 4th, and will be going to the state competition in April. Avi Anderson will compete in Public Speaking, and Tayler Hart will
compete in the Job Interview category. This is the second year Westwood
students have made it to state competition.

WESTWOOD FOOD DRIVEWMS recently finished a canned food drive to benefit those
in need in the Airway Heights community. Wolverine Pride students
spent several weeks organizing this food drive that brought in over 1000 items
of food to help restock shelves after the holiday season. The 8th grade can be proud to have led the rest of the school with over 500 items
collected. All items were brought to the Airway Heights Baptist Church
for distribution to those in need. Food Drive Photo

MATH IS COOL COMPETITIONA team of 16 6th graders travelled to Mt. Spokane
High School to compete in the division 1 Math is Cool Competition. This was our
first 6th grade competition at a division 1 level and we are very
proud of our accomplishments. Out of 28 schools, we came in 12th
place overall. The highest scoring individual from our school was Alaina
O’Connell. We had a blast competing as teams and formed some great
relationships in doing so. Thanks for your support WMS! Math is cool!

STUDENTS CELEBRATE ARTWe’ve had many reasons to celebrate the art happenings at
WMS this semester and wanted to share some of them with you! Since
September we’ve had colored glass artwork by Seattle artist, Sonja Blomdahl
installed at the front of our school and learned about another Seattle glass
artist, Dale Chihuly in class. In addition, five of our students were
chosen to have their wonderful artwork published in a Celebrating Art
book and finally, we’ve just recently had an end-of-term “Art Night” where over
175 folks came to experience the various art projects made by the students
along with trying a few projects that night themselves. We are very
proud of the students for all their hard work this semester and have really
enjoyed the creativity and color it has added to our school!

Join us at Windsor Elementary School on February 23, March 24, April 29, May 26, and June 9 from 3-5pm in the Community Room to receive delicious and nutritious groceries from the Food Bank.Mobile Food Bank Flier

The 7th and 8th grade band at Westwood
Middle School will have a unique opportunity to have a piece of music
commissioned for them as part of the repertoire that they will prepare for the
EWMEA middle school large group festival on March 25th.
Commissioning a piece of music means the music will be written specifically for
the Westwood Middle School 7th and 8th grade band with
our specific instrumentation and individual skill levels in mind. The title for
our piece is “Warrior Rising” and is being written by Alex Thode. Alex is a music
composition major at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Alex has written for
several award winning marching bands as well as solos for his fellow college
students. He is very excited to be working with Westwood Middle School both
through the process of writing the music and hearing recorded samples to get a
composer’s opinion of the piece as it is being rehearsed. This will be a great
experience for the Westwood Middle School 7th and 8th grade
bands over the next couple of months. “Warrior Rising” will be premiered at our
mid-year concert on March 19th at 7:00p.m. See Photo

CELEBRATING ART WINNERSCongratulations to
these fantastic student artists, Sixth
grader Dawson Heuett, seventh grader Katie Bree-Clark and eighth graders
Julianna Burgos, Sophia Wong and Bailey Sweitzer. These talented young people have
created some wonderful artwork in our Visual Art classes and have been chosen,
among thousands of other entries, to have their artwork published in the
“Celebrating Art” anthology. This hard covered book features today’s best
student artists and as most students are not invited to be published, this is
quite an honor. Congratulations to these hardworking, creative young
people. We are very proud of you!